Indonesia creates a Coordinating Ministry for Downstreaming and Energy Transition under Bahlil Lahadalia

1 October 2026

Indonesia has created a new coordinating ministry charged with downstreaming and the energy transition, and appointed Bahlil Lahadalia to run it. He keeps his existing post as Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, holding the two offices concurrently. The restructuring was carried out by Presidential Decree Number 104/P of 2026, signed a day before the swearing-in at the State Palace, and it reorganises the Red and White Cabinet for the 2024 to 2029 term. Coordinating ministries in Indonesia sit above line ministries and are meant to align their work on a theme, so the new one gives the downstreaming policy a permanent place in the cabinet structure rather than leaving it to a task force. The Jakarta Post noted that the same reshuffle touched four coordinating ministries in all.